It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade, old landmarks crumble and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.

Soft Tyranny or Soft Tranny?

J. Clifford just wrote a long explanation of the idea of soft tyranny, and that’s all well and good, I suppose. He believes that soft tyranny is a weak concept used by Republicans to describe their general opposition to anything they don’t like when it comes to the government. I have another idea.

I think that soft tyranny is a code for Republicans’ suppressed sexual desires. I noticed that there’s just a one-letter difference between “soft tyranny” and “soft tranny”. Tranny is slang for transsexual.

There is, it turns out, a Soft Tranny web site. Is this what the Republicans are trying to direct us to? It certainly makes more sense than their political theories.

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